Youth Softball

The Stripes & Strikes 16u softball team was tied 2-2 in the fifth inning with the Kansas City, Kansas Peppers when KC scored four unearned runs to take a 6-2 lead, then tacked on two more unearned runs in the sixth to win, 8-2 Monday evening in the opening round of the ASA/USA 16u A National Championship Tournament.

Stripes & Strikes broke out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first when MacKenzie Yori and Taylor Hoffman hit back to back infield singles. They both advanced on a wild pitch, then each scored on illegal pitches called on the Kansas City pitcher. The Peppers answered with two runs of their own in the bottom of the first on four consecutive hits, two singles and two doubles. Neither team scored until the fifth when Kansas erupted for four runs.

Stripes and Strikes was paced by Maggie Murphy, Yori and Hoffman, each with a single as the locals managed only five hits.

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